not a lawyer nor play one on TV
am an old school hacker and “Open Sourcerer” with more than 30 years of free and open source system development experience.
has held most every position in the computer field from operator, programmer, designer to VP of Eng and CTO and startup founder
first encountered the early editions of UNIX while @ university student, writing a variety of device drivers, kernel enhancements, and microprocessor support tools for the early 4- and 8-bit CPUs
has been designing and developing Operating Systems and Technical Computing Systems ever since
currently leads an international team of engineers in multiple time zones developing super computers and associated technologies
degrees in EE, Math & CS from CMU and UCB, with the usual multi-page list of publications and talks to his credit
helped to write one of the original TCP/IP implementations in the late 1970’s
is also known as one of the authors of the precursor to IM, the UNIX talk program, as well as other more humorous and notorious hacks
is honored to be the past President of the USENIX Association